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1451Jun 28An eclipse occurred that allegedly prevented the outbreak of war between the Mohawk and the Seneca Indians.
1461Jun 28Edward IV was crowned king of England.
1635Jun 28The French colony of Guadeloupe was established in the Caribbean.
1675Jun 28Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes.
1712Jun 28Jean-Jacques Rousseau (d.1778), writer and philosopher, was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His books include “The Social Contract” (1762) and Emile (1762).
1748Jun 28,A riot followed a public execution in Amsterdam and over 200 were killed.
1762Jun 28Catharine II, Russian Tsarina, grabbed power. [see Jul 17]
1776Jun 28Colonists repulsed a British sea attack on Charleston, South Carolina.
1787Jun 28Sir Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, was born.
1820Jun 28The tomato was proven to be non-poisonous.
1831Jun 28Joseph Joachim, violinist (Hungarian Concerto), was born in Kittsee, Germany.
1836Jun 28James Madison (85), the 4th president of the United States (1809-17), died in Montpelier, Va. His writings included the 29 Federalist essays. In 1999 “James Madison: Writings,” edited by Jack N. Rakove, was published. In 2002 Garry Wills authored James Madison.”
1838Jun 28Britain’s Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1846Jun 28Near San Rafael, Ca., a US military detachment was approached by 3 unarmed Mexicans, Jose de los Reyes Berryessa, Francisco de Haro and his twin brother Ramon. Captain Fremont was asked by trapper Kit Carson whether he should take the men as prisoners. Fremont responded that he had no room for prisoners and Carson shot the men dead and left their bodies to rot.
1862Jun 28At Garnett’s and Golding’s farms, fighting continued for a 4th day between Union and Confederate forces during the Seven Days in Virginia.
1863Jun 28General Meade replaced General Hooker three days before the Battle of Gettysburg. General George Gordon Meade said “Well, I’ve been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to execution,” in response to his appointment as head of the Union Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Within a week his army won the Battle of Gettysburg, assuring Meade of a record of success superior to all of his predecessors.
1867Jun 28Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright (Six Characters in Search of an Author), was born, was born. He won the Nobel Prize in 1934.
1873Jun 28Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, was born. He won a Nobel Prize in 1912 for the development of blood vessel suture technique.
1874Jun 28The Freedmen’s Bank, created to assist former slaves in the United States, closed. African American depositors lost some $3 million.
1891Jun 28Esther Forbes, author (Johnny Tremain), was born.
1884Jun 28Congress declared Labor Day a legal holiday.
1902Jun 28Richard Rodgers (d.1979), American composer, was born.
1904Jun 28Blind-deaf student Helen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College.
1906Jun 28Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was born.
1909Jun 28Eric Ambler, British mystery writer (The Dark Frontier, Uncommon Danger), was born.
1911Jun 28Samuel J. Battle became the first African-American policeman in New York City.
1912Jun 28Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor, was born.
1917Jun 28The Raggedy Ann doll invented.
1918Jun 28The US Marines took the Bois de Belleau.
1919Jun 28Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Mo.
1920Jun 28The Democrats opened their convention, the first in the West, in San Francisco. James Cox of Ohio was elected presidential candidate on the 44th ballot on July 6.
1921Jun 28A coal strike in Great Britain was settled after three months.
1924Jun 28A tornado struck Sandusky & Lorain, Ohio, killing 93.
1926Jun 28Mel Brooks, comedian, actor, and director, was born. His films included “The Producers” and “Blazing Saddles.”
1928Jun 28New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith was nominated for president at the Democratic national convention in Houston.
1929Jun 28In San Francisco movie mogul William Fox unveiled his $5 million “theater of dreams.” The SF Fox Theater closed in 1963.
1934Jun 28Hitler flew to Essen (Night of Long Knifes) where a massive purge of SA (storm troopers) was carried out to placate the Army and the high command. [see Jun 30]
1935Jun 28FDR ordered a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
1938Jun 28Congress created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans.
1939Jun 28Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic passenger air service as the “Dixie Clipper” left Port Washington, N.Y., for Portugal.
1940Jun 28Italian fascist Marshall Italo Balbo (b.1896) was killed when his plane was shot down over Tobruk, Libya, by friendly fire.
1941Jun 28German and Romanian soldiers killed 11,000 Jews in Kishinev.
1942Jun 28German troops launched “Operation Blue,” an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.
1944Jun 28The Republican national convention in Chicago nominated New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker for vice president.
1945Jun 28General Douglas MacArthur announced the end of Japanese resistance in the Philippines.
1947Jun 28Mark Helprin, novelist (Winter’s Tale), was born.
1948Jun 28Kathy Bates (Academy Award-winning actress: Misery [1990]; Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss), was born.
1949Jun 28The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.
1950Jun 28General Douglas MacArthur arrived in South Korea as Seoul fell to the North Korean forces.
1951Jun 28A TV version of the radio program “Amos ‘N’ Andy” premiered on CBS. Although criticized for racial stereotyping, it was the first network TV series to feature an all-black cast.
1954Jun 28French troops began to pull out of Vietnam’s Tonkin Province.
1956Jun 28-30Workers rioted in Poznan, Poland, and some 100 died.
1958Jun 28Alfred Noyes (77), British poet, essayist (Robin Hood, The Highwayman), died.
1960Jun 28John Elway, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos quarterback:  Super Bowl XXI, XXII, XXIV), was born.
1962Jun 28Thalidomide was banned in Netherlands.
1963Jun 28Khrushchev visited East-Berlin.
1964Jun 28Malcolm X founded the Organization for Afro American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
1966Jun 28In Argentina a military uprising led by General Juan Carlos Ongania overthrew President Arturo Illia of the UCRP.
1967Jun 28Fourteen people were shot in race riots in Buffalo, New York.
1970Jun 28Muhammed Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, stood before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the Army during the Vietnam War.
1971Jun 28The Supreme Court overturned the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1972Jun 28US Pres. Nixon announced that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam. South Vietnamese troops began a counter-offensive to retake Quang Tri Province, aided by US Navy gunfire and B-52 bombardments.
1975Jun 28Rod Serling (b.1924), writer and director of the TV series “Twilight Zone” and “Night Gallery,” died. He was remembered in the 1995 PBS production titled: “Submitted for Your Approval.”
1976Jun 28The first women entered the U.S. Air Force Academy.
1979Jun 28Philippe Cousteau (b.1940), the youngest son of Jacques Cousteau, was killed while testing a seaplane near Lisbon.
1981Jun 28In Tehran, Iran, a powerful bomb exploded at the headquarters of the IRP while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. 73 persons were killed, including the chief justice and party secretary general Mohammad Beheshti, four cabinet ministers and 27 Majlis deputies. The Mujahedin e-Kalq carried out the bombing. Those killed included Premier Mohammad-Javad Bahonar and Pres. Mohammad-Ali Rajaei.
1983Jun 28A 100-foot span of the Mianus River Bridge, part of Interstate 95 in Connecticut, collapsed without warning in the middle of the night, leaving 3 dead and three injured.
1987Jun 28US Secretary of State George P. Shultz said he had found some of the recent revelations about the Iran-Contra affair “sickening,” but defended the Reagan administration’s foreign policy.
1989Jun 28China’s new Communist Party chief, Jiang Zemin, said his government would show no mercy to leaders of the crushed pro-democracy movement, which he termed a “counterrevolutionary rebellion.”
1990Jun 28Jurors in the drug and perjury trial of Washington DC Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. viewed a videotape showing Barry smoking crack cocaine during an FBI hotel-room sting operation. Barry was later convicted of a single count of misdemeanor drug possession.
1991Jun 28In Detroit, a white woman was attacked by a group of black women at a downtown fireworks display in an incident captured on amateur video. Five women later pleaded no contest to charges stemming from the assault.
1992Jun 28The 7.3 Landers earthquake hit Southern California. One person was killed and 402 injured.
1993Jun 28The US Supreme Court kept alive a “racial gerrymandering” case, saying congressional districts designed to benefit racial minorities may violate white voters’ rights.
1994Jun 28President Clinton became the first chief executive in U.S. history to set up a personal legal defense fund and ask Americans to contribute to it.
1995Jun 28The US House overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to protect the American flag from desecration. However, the amendment was defeated in the Senate.
1996Jun 28The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school
1997Jun 28President Clinton, unable to meet his own July 4 deadline for campaign finance reform, blamed the inaction on Congress in his weekly radio address.
1998Jun 28The 12th World AIDS Conference opened in Geneva with some 12,000 participants.
1999Jun 28Announcing even bigger projected budget surpluses, President Clinton said the government could drastically reduce the national debt while still buttressing Social Security and Medicare.
2000Jun 28The US Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts can exclude gays from its organization (from serving as troop leaders). The ruling allowed the organization to set standards for membership.
2001Jun 28A unanimous federal appeals court reversed the court-ordered breakup of Microsoft, but ruled that the software giant had violated antitrust laws, and appointed another judge to determine a new punishment.
2002Jun 28WorldCom Inc. began laying off 17,000 employees worldwide after disclosing accounting irregularities that later forced it into bankruptcy protection.
2003Jun 28The Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium opened in Dubuque, Iowa.
2004Jun 28The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that detainees at Guantanamo must have access to the US legal system. The Court ruled that the war on terrorism did not give the government a “blank check” to hold a US citizen and foreign-born terror suspects in legal limbo.
2005Jun 28Google unveiled a free 3-D satellite mapping technology.
2006Jun 28Star Jones Reynolds was booted from “The View,” one day after surprising ABC and Barbara Walters by saying on the air that she wouldn’t be returning to the daytime talk show in the fall.
2007Jun 28President Bush’s immigration plan to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants while fortifying the border collapsed in the Senate.
2008Jun 28US President George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in California and ordered federal aid to help authorities battle more than 1,000 wildfires burning out of control.
2009Jun 28Impressionist Fred Travalena (66), a headliner in Vegas showrooms and a regular on late-night talk shows with his takes on presidents, crooners and screen stars, died in Los Angeles.
2010Jun 28The US Supreme Court in Christian Legal Society vs. Martinez (08-1371) ruled that a public university is not required to subsidize student groups with discriminatory membership policies.
2011Jun 28New Jersey Gov. Chris Christy signed legislation requiring government workers to pay more for health care and pensions.
2012Jun 28The US Supreme Court upheld Pres. Obama’s signature health care law’s individual insurance mandate in a 5-4 decision. The mandate was upheld as a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee, joining the liberal wing of the court to save the law.
2013Jun 28Pres. Obama departed Senegal saying Washington had a “moral imperative” to help the world’s poorest continent feed itself and he then left for South Africa hoping to see ailing Nelson Mandela.
2014Jun 28Chinese President Xi Jinping feted neighbors India and Myanmar, dusting off the 60th anniversary of a now rather obscure agreement signed in the early days of the Cold War to pledge a rising China’s commitment to peace.
 Source: Timelines of History 

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